Racine
Subtitle: from ancient myth to tragic modernity
By: Mitchell Greenberg
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780816660834; 9780816660841
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: spectacle, myth, sacrifice : Racinian tragedy and the origins of modernity; title: La Thébaïde : politics and monstrous origins; title: Andromaque : myth and melancholy; title: Britannicus : power, perversion, and paranoia; title: Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate : oriental Oedipus; title: Iphigénie : sacrifice and sovereignty; title: Phèdre (et Hippolyte) : taboo, transgression, and the birth of democracy?; title: Esther, Athalie : religion, and revolution in Racine's heavenly city.